Tybalt’s hate for Romeo is his family’s hate for Monatgues. The quote “Romeo, the love I bear thee can afford no better term than this; thou art a villain.” From the quote the audience obviously sees there is hate for Romeo from Tylbalt. The word “villain,” creates an image of a thief who is associated with evil and hate. Tybalt says,” he bears no love” for Romeo all though the main reason for he hates Romeo is because he is a Montague. This proves Tybalt's hate is because of his family. Tybalt is a very loyal member of the Capulet family and takes on his family’s hatred for his own. In Baz Lurhrmann’s perception of Romeo and Juliet, when Tybalt says that line the audience can see Tybalt is on the edge of crying and looking very sad. The image that the audience gets is that Tybalt does not really mean what he said to Romeo. This is a good idea of a way to stage it. It creates dramatic irony and tension because the scene before the audience witnessed Rome and Juliet marrying. This makes Tybalt and Romeo family, if Tybalt is loyal to his family then he should not hurt Romeo, as he is family, this is a good idea for a dramatic method because it throws all of the audiences idea of family love away. Tybalts love and loyalty to the Capulets is high, he is so loyal to them that he creates hate and war towards the Monatgues because of it. Romeo being a Montague but married to a Capulet makes the audience think. Tybalt does not know Romeo has married Juliet causing dramatic irony and the overall feeling in the audience is of high tension. These dramatic methods convey the link between love and war. Baz Lurhrmanns Romeo and Juliet show Tybalt not hating Rome. It could be seen that the only reason Tybalt does try to show hate for Romeo is because he loves his family and therefore hates Montague’s. This shows love and war are very closely relates and one often leads to another. In the scene after Tybalt says his lines, Romeo does not try to provoke Tybalt, he shows friendliness to Tybalt because he is married to his cousin Juliet.
When Romeo and Juliet meet, their love is religious love. The quote “ This holy shrine, the gentle sin is this,” is what Romeo says to Juliet. He refers to Juliet hand as a holy shrine that he may “profane” with his hand. This is all imagery used by Romeo. The audience creates a picture of Juliet as is she were God and Romeo is not worthy of her. “Gentle sin” is an oxymoron, “Gentle” meant noble or virtuous in the 16th century and a “sin” is still meant as something as something bad or against God. Romeo says “my lips two blushing pilgrims, ready stand” the blushing is tactile imagery used to represent red lips. He refers his lips as pilgrims, pilgrims make religious journeys places worship and by this Romeo means he wants to kiss her. Juliet follows this by saying holding hands is the right kiss for a pilgrim. Romeo makes a witty response by asking for permission to let his lips and hands swap jobs.
Juliet “grants” this request. Throughout all of this Romeo is speaking as if Juliet is bigger, better or more powerful than him. Shakespeare did this because when the play was first acted out the audience would have been very religious. They believed in God, and believed he controlled all life and all love. While Romeo and Juliet acted this out, although it was a love scene the audience would have felt dramatic tension grow also. The use of religion in the play is the best way to represent love and war because the audience were very religious and would relate to the words and links very well. It is a dramatic method because the audience create more tension because their belief in religion is very high.
The hate that one character feels for another creates harm. The quotes “Tybalt, you rat-catcher…Good King Of Cats…one of your nine lives…a cat, to scratch a man to death!” These lines come from Mercutio when speaking to Tybalt. In Romeo and Juliet, Tybalt is named ‘Prince Of Cats’ Mercutio mocks Tybalt by using imagery to make Tybalt angry and wanting to fight. Even though Tybalt does not mind being called ‘The King Of Cats’ Mercutio, it is the fact Mercutio mocks him to make him angry. A cat is a sneaky predator and likes to watch its prey and kill it the easiest way possible. Mercutio is referring to this side of a cat’s characteristic. Tybalt hates Mercuito and although Tybalt came to fight Romeo, Tybalt and Mercutio end up fighting. When Tybalt gets to Romeo, Romeo does not want to fight Tybalt because he is married to Juliet and Tybalt is now family. This creates dramatic irony but even though Romeo does not fight Tybalt, Mercutio steps in the help Romeo. This changes the audience’s thoughts, they were thinking that Tybalt would not fight or kill but when Mercutio steps in the audiences knows Tybalt hates him. Mercutio’s previous mocking creates dramatic tension. The audience know Tybalt will fight. Mercutio only dies because Romeo tired to help him, but Tybalt's hate for Mercutio causes harm to Mercutio and to Romeo for his loss of a best friend. When Mercutio has died, Romeo feels hate for Tybalt and goes after him and kills him. Again Romeos hate for Tybalt causes harm for Tybalt.
Dramatic irony creates humour. The quote “ You are a princox, go, Be quiet, or-more light, more light!…I’ll make you quiet, what! -Cheerily, my hearts!” This is what Lord Capulet says to Tybalt while trying to set up his party. The audience see that Lord Capulet is angry at Tybalt for trying to fight the Montague’s for coming to a Capulet ‘only’ party but the party guests do not see this. They only see Lord Capulet acting cheerily and smiling trying to make everything perfect. This is dramatic irony and is funny to the audience because of Lord Capulets' big contrast in mood between Tybalt and his party guests. The use of ‘commas’ shows an actor reading the script that these lines must be read fast. To add more humour to the scene Lord Capulet could be seen running from one side of the stage to the other frantically. Also when he says “more light, more light!” the person Lord Capulet is talking to could come out of role and turn to the audience pointing to the open top theatre. The audience would find this funny, as they did not have the technology to have more light and only had sunlight. A great example of dramatic irony is ‘Trigger Happy TV’. The show stars Dom Joly who plays crazy jokes on unsuspecting people, the people do not no they are being filmed and do not know it is all a joke. The audience find this funny to laugh at other people’s expense.
The methods used represent love and war very well. The way loyalty for someone or something you love leads to the loved ones hatred. If someone loves something they hate their loved ones hatred. An example of this is the war on terrorism. The worlds love for peace and America causes hatred by most on terrorism. People try to bring in the use of religion, saying it is a ‘holy war’. This creates tension, as people do not know what to do. Although it is not a ‘holy war’ two things come against each other and people have to take on the hatred for what they believe.
